wake up call

I don’t know why Brett Favre has become a raging egomanical bundle of manwaste in the last few months (although he’s been handcuffing the Packers during the last few years in every off-season) but I think this entire situation was a wake up call for fans of any sports organization.

Fund-raising struggles for Leatherwood, provides the final death nail in his political viability to seriously challenge Blackburn.
Congressman Blackburn has managed to accumulate enough to thwart any further challenges, but significantly less than her last election cycle.

It doesn’t look good for my outdoor weekend plans. I was planning on spending most of Saturday and Sunday outside taking out tree stumps, killing some weeds, mowing, weedeating, and generally cleaning shop. And Katie is going to spend the weekend horseshowing.

I can really identify with Atrios’ post about the HBO film “Recount.” In particular, this:

That whole saga was just really traumatic.

Jim Tomasik cites Democratic Congressman Dan Boren of Oklahoma as a model in his quest to defeat Congressman Marsha Blackburn:

I’m sorry I haven’t been able to blog much from the Dominican Republic and I won’t be able to blog anything else after this for a day or so.  This is not a blogging trip.  It was a trip taken to shoot three small films telling the stories of sponsored children to music festival audiences.  Choosing which stories to tell, interviewing enough people to put the story together, sh

Emily Stinnett and Cordelia Johnson both doubled and scored to lead off the game for Huntland, sounding the wake-up call for Cascade. Nobody hit the snooze alarm and fell back asleep. Rather, the...